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CJ374 ~ Design & Visual Presentation I ~ Summer 2023

Week 7

Weekly Overview

Activities

Radial Repeats in Illustrator

Radial repeat example #1 by Christopher Schiotis
Radial repeat example #1
Radial repeat example #2 by Christopher Schiotis
Radial repeat example #2

This is probably much easier than it looks! We are using this exercise to sharpen up our Illustrator skills as well as to generate a motif or logo element for our personal business identity, biz cards, and poster. The 2 brief instructional videos below will assist us through the completion of this exercise.

Radial Repeats - Part 1

Radial Repeats - Part 2

Personal Resume

We will be using Illustrator and InDesign, possibly some Photoshop to create our personal professional resume. This will be the major task this week. Please do the exercises as they are posted so that you can use the Radial Repeat in this and other projects.

Example of a successfully completed resume using this instruction
Example of a successfully completed resume using this instruction

Video Instructions - part 1

Part 2 - Working with the wireframes

Part 3 - Using Object Styles

Part 4 - More Styles

Part 5 - "Paste Into"

Part 6 - Creating social media buttons

social media icons download

Part 7 - Creating background elements

Part 7a - More BG elements

Part 8 - Creating interactive links

Part 9 - Wrapping it up

Part 10 - What to turn in!

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